The Stack Overflow Podcast

The find out stage of AI is just supply chain and password protection

Fri, 29 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

In this two-for-one special recorded at HumanX, Ryan is joined by Dataiku’s Florian Douetteau to chat about the governance, orchestration, and data requirements for serious agentic systems and 1Password’s Nancy Wang for a conversation on making agent swarms secure.

Ryan first catches up with Dataiku co-founder and CEO Florian Douettea to chat serious agentic systems and why they require intentional frameworks, orchestration, governance, and reusable, documented data products. Then, 1Password’s CTO Nancy Wang returns to the show to discuss why current identity standards don’t fit the new world of agents, especially when ephemeral agent swarms make attribution to a single user difficult.

Episode notes:

Dataiku orchestrates data stacks and lets you create analytics, models, and agents.

Florian previously appeared on this program in an episode recorded at the last HumanX conference.

1Password keeps your credentials secure through end-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge architecture, and more. You can learn more about building secure agent swarms at their blog.

Nancy Wang previously appeared on the pod in March 2026.

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Do you have what it takes to run AI in production?

Tue, 26 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

From the floor of HumanX, Ryan Donovan is joined by Peter Salanki, CTO and co-founder of CoreWeave, to chat about what it really takes to run AI in production; the growing importance of observability, utilization, and scheduling; and Peter’s advice for avoiding the trap of over-architecting too early.

Episode note:

CoreWeave is the AI-native platform cloud that’s purpose-built for AI, combining next-generation infrastructure and intelligent tools to power the world’s most complex AI workloads.

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Breaking your AI storage bottlenecks

Fri, 22 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Recorded at HumanX, Ryan sits down with Garima Kapoor and Anand Babu Periasamy, co-founders and co-CEOs of MinIO, to chat about eliminating the storage bottlenecks that leave GPUs underutilized, their partnership with NVIDIA on the new STX reference architecture, and why modern AI infrastructure is converging on S3-compatible object storage.

Episode notes:

MinIO delivers exascale performance, unifying enterprise data across edge, core, and cloud environments. Reach out to them at hello@min.io.

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Pack your agentic stack in Slack

Wed, 20 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Your fridge could be a threat to national security

Tue, 19 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

On the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by Adam Meyers, Senior VP of Counter Adversary Operations at Crowdstrike, for a deep dive on their latest Global Threat Report that tracks over 281 adversaries across nation states, e-crime, and hacktivist organizations. They discuss the new wave of phishing attacks that target identity and use social engineering, how foreign bodies are exploiting security flaws to get your information, and how you can protect yourself from attacks as AI makes both defenders and attackers smarter at what they do.

Episode notes:

Crowdstrike’s latest Global Threat Report tracks 281 known adversaries' behavior and how they’re using AI, cloud exploits, and social engineering to steal your data and attack your software.

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Observability and human intuition in an AI world

Fri, 15 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

In this two for one episode recorded at HumanX, Ryan is first joined by Christine Yen, CEO of Honeycomb, to discuss how AI compresses the software development lifecycle, making observability about capturing the right telemetry. Then, Spiros Xanthos, founder and CEO of Resolve AI, shares with us how AI coding increases code volume but decreases human intuition, making production operations harder than ever.

Episode notes:

Honeycomb is an observability platform that enables deep, high-dimensional exploration so you can debug unpredictable behavior with precision.

Resolve AI allows you to resolve incidents, optimize costs, and code with production context using AI that works across your code, infrastructure, and telemetry.

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How Braze’s CTO is rethinking engineering for the agentic area

Wed, 13 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Jon Hyman, co-founder and CTO of Braze, joins Stack Overflow CPTO Jody Bailey on Leaders of Code to share how he's led the company's engineering organization over nearly 15 years of growth — and how they transformed into an AI-first team in just a few months.

Jon explains some pivotal moments where his thinking shifted (watching his team ship an MCP server six weeks ahead of schedule will do that!) and talks candidly about the cultural and practical challenges of driving adoption across a 300-person engineering org. He explains how model quality, not mandates, was the key factor in winning over skeptics, and why over 60% of Braze's committed code is now AI-generated.

Jon also addresses the harder questions: how to measure AI's real business value, the surprisingly steep cost of inference at scale, why "vibe-coding your way to scale" is folly, and what comes next as autonomous agents start building features overnight.

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Connecting the dots for accurate AI

Tue, 12 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

At HumanX, Ryan is joined by Philip Rathle, CTO at Neo4j to discuss what knowledge context means for AI agents, how limitations like stale training data make the model-only approach to agents a bad fit for enterprise environments, and how Graph RAG raises the bar for accuracy and reduces context rot by combining vectors with a knowledge graph so agents are more targeted and connected.

Episode notes:

Neo4j is a native graph database management system designed to handle complex, highly-connected data by focusing on relationships rather than tables. You can try it out for free on Aura and learn more at their Graph Academy.

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AI giveth and AI taketh CPU

Fri, 08 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Recorded on the floor of HumanX, Ryan is joined by AMD CTO Mark Papermaster to discuss AMD’s silicon strategy for AI borne of their long history of heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing, how chipmakers are dealing the wide range of AI workloads from training to inference, and the paradox of agents both eating up all the compute and helping AMD accelerate chip innovation.

Episode notes:

Want to learn more about the topics Mark and Ryan discussed in this episode? Check out the AMD Advanced Insights podcast, a monthly show hosted by Mark.

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What (un)exactly do you mean by semantic search?

Tue, 05 May 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes Bryan O’Grady, Head of Field Research and Solutions Architecture at Qdrant, to discuss the differences between traditional text search engines powered by Lucene and modern vector databases, when vector search’s exact-match needs work for things like logs and security analytics and when semantic search works for user-facing discovery and non-exact results, and how Qdrant is growing into video embeddings and local-agent contexts.

Episode notes:

Qdrant offers high-performance vector search at scale with any deployment model.

Connect with Brian on LinkedIn or email the Qdrant team at support@qdrant.io.

Congratulations to user Brad Larson for winning a Populist badge for their answer to Find the tangent of a point on a cubic bezier curve.

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